Pete Davidson Quotes

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you'll be off-stage and hiding in a short time.

In my early years doing standup, I bombed a lot.

Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I wasn't a great improviser when I started there; I'm not really up on current events. I would always just mug, just try to get my laughs from making faces. So I decided to do a character who should never have become a comic - somebody you would see at the Comedy Store and go, "This person is never going to make it."

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.